Religion
See also: Religion in Iran| Name | Rank | Out of | Source | Notes | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muslim population | 7 | 67 | Demographics of Islam | 7th largest Muslim population in the world; More info: List of countries by Muslim population | 2005 |
| Muslims as % of population | 6 | 168 | International Religious Freedom Report | 98% of population is Muslim; More info: Religions by country | 2004 |
| Shia's as % of total Muslim population | 1 | 67 | Demographics of Islam | 89% of Muslim population of the country is Shia | 2005 |
| Number of Shia Muslims by Country | 1 | 67 | Demographics of Islam | 61,924,500 Shia Muslims; Second is India with an estimated population of 40 to 55 million as per 2001 Census followed by Pakistan with an estimated Shia population of 30 to 45 million. More info: Demographics of Shia Islam | 2005 |
| Sunni's as % of total Muslim population | 67 | 67 | Demographics of Islam | 9% of Muslim population of the country is Sunni | 2005 |
| Bahá'í population by country | 2 | 247 | Bahá'í Faith by country | Population of 150,000-500,000 | 2004 |
| Protestants population | 98 | 167 | Protestantism by country | Population of 204,054 | 2004 |
| Population of Roman Catholics | 149 | 170 | Roman Catholicism by country | Population of 13,603 | 2004 |
| Zoroastrian population by country | 2 | World | Zoroastrianism | Population of 24,000-30,000 | 2005 |
| Jewish population of countries | 24 | 89 | World Jewish Congress | ~25,000-40,000 Jews live in Iran according to various estimates | 1998 |
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to children by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the philosophers celebrate in vain. And nothing stands between the people and the fictions except the silly falsehood that the fictions are literal truths, and that there is nothing in religion but fiction.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I read ... an article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children to be skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)